Concern is growing in Rome, where Bishops and Cardinals are gathering for a decisive Synod on the Family beginning on 4 October, that the CEO of the German Church has presided over an emissions fraud scandal set to dominate the agenda in the debates ahead.

Have you ever wondered if maybe the difficulty we’re experiencing is really just a matter of definitions. When the pope announced that there was going to be a “Synod on the Family” how many of us would have thought that we ought to have asked